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Guy Hatchard: Cancers rise dramatically in tandem with Covid vaccinations

This release reports increased trends of cancer incidence that suddenly accelerated after the vaccine rollout began. First we consider what the media are currently reporting...

Government extends report date for COVID inquiry

The Government has agreed to a request from the Royal Commission of Inquiry into COVID-19 for extra three months to deliver its final report. The...

What just happened to New Zealand? Apparently it is all our own fault.

In the short space of three years New Zealand society has been transformed. Our economic circumstances, our health landscape, our political ideas, our attitude to...

Caren Fox to be appointed Chair of the Waitangi Tribunal

Associate Minister of Māori Development Nanaia Mahuta today announced Māori Land Court Chief Judge Caren Fox as the new Chairperson for the Waitangi Tribunal...

New law to crack down on fleeing drivers passes third reading

The Government has 'delivered on its commitment' to crack down on fleeing drivers through the passage of the Land Transport (Road Safety) Amendment Bill. “People...

Released: The Most Explosive New Zealand Investigative Documentary in recent times is launched

Episode One Red Carpet Event in Auckland this Sunday September 3. Press Release - Billy Te Kahika After a year’s work and filming 1800 minutes of...

Bryce Edwards: Who is funding National to victory?

National is not only winning the race towards the general election finish line, but is also miles ahead in raising money to campaign with. So...

ACT will repeal ‘undemocratic Māori wards’

“ACT will restore one person, one vote to local government by scrapping race-based representation altogether”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Labour has been unapologetically undemocratic...

Bryce Edwards: Is it now all over for the Labour Government?

Labour appears to be in something of an electoral death spiral. The four-point drop in last night’s 1News Verian poll to just 29 per cent...

Alan Hall to receive compensation for wrongful conviction and imprisonment

The Government will pay Alan Hall just under $5 million in compensation for wrongful conviction and imprisonment, Acting Justice Minister Deborah Russell announced today. “The...

Deaths up 14%, natural live births down 28%, Disability up 37.5% – NZ official birth and death figures for 12 months to the end...

Stats NZ released the official figures for births and deaths for the period 1st July 2022 to 30th June 2023 today. The short summary accompanying the...

Bryce Edwards: How Labour’s tax cut will do little but benefit the rich

Who would profit most from Labour’s GST-exemption policy? It won’t be those struggling with the cost of living – the average shopper is unlikely to...

‘$250 million amateur error in Labour’s GST costing’ – National

A closer look at Labour’s costings for their policy to remove GST from fruit and vegetables reveals a schoolboy error equating to quarter-of-a-billion-dollar hole,...

De-Carbonization Transition Therapy — World’s Premiere Test Lab, New Zealand, Pitched to Pilot ‘Net Zero Carbon Economy’ —Amid Resource Wars for $270T Global Refit

Blackrock Funds South Pacific Nation’s Transition to ‘Net Zero Carbon Economy’. The stealthy signing of a partnership deal between BlackRock and New Zealand’s Government sets...

Taxpayers’ Union Curia poll: Labour crashing

This month's Taxpayers' Union poll also sees NZ First back in parliament. The results of the poll have National and ACT being able to form...

The Uninformed Election that has become a Gateway to Chaos

After three years of pandemic pandemonium that has all but destroyed the New Zealand we knew and loved, we are heading into an election...

Guardian poll: Labour ‘languishing’, NZ First back in parliament

The poll conducted by Esstential for UK legacy media outlet The Guardian shows cost of living concerns could dominate this year's election. Undecided voters came...

Guy Hatchard: Why do we ask the same questions again and again?

Someone wrote to us after our last article “Startling revelations change everything New Zealanders have been schooled to believe” and complained that my writing...

Does NZ need a ‘Declaration of Unity’?

The United States made their Declaration of Independence in 1776, and South Africa established their ‘Reconciliation’ in 1995. Those were historic, nation defining events that...

Jail time for shooting pictures of politicians

Christchurch man Nathan Raureti Symington was sentenced yesterday to 2 years and 6 months jail for distributing 'objectionable material' and possession of a firearm. Symington...

Bryce Edwards: Can David Parker push Labour back onto a more progressive path?

Cabinet Minister David Parker recently told the Spinoff he’s reading “The Triumph of Injustice – how the wealthy avoid paying tax and how to...

Our enemy, the State

Medically idiotic, economically ruinous, socially disruptive and embittering, culturally dystopian, politically despotic: what was there to like in the Covid era? Billions, if you were...

Government to review weather forecasting system

The Government has commissioned a review of New Zealand’s weather forecasting system, State Owned Enterprises Minister Duncan Webb says. “MetService and NIWA have capability critical...

Firearms Safety Authority privacy breach

Firearms Safety Authority (FSA) can confirm that earlier this afternoon it’s Auckland District Office sent an email to 147 recipients that revealed the email...

Bryce Edwards: Chris Hipkins failed to prevent the Kiri Allan tragedy

Electoral calculation was surely at the centre of Prime Minister Chris Hipkins’ unfortunate decision to keep flailing Minister Kiri Allan on in her job...

Hipkins announces reallocation of portfolios in wake of Kiri Allan resignation

Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has announced the reallocation of Kiri Allan’s ministerial portfolios, promoting newer Ministers who have demonstrated promise. “Ginny Andersen will become the...

NZ First campaign launch, Winston: ‘Let’s take back our country’

New Zealand First launched its campaign for this year's general election at Mt. Smart Stadium today. Leader Winston Peters called the election 'the most critical...

Guy Hatchard: While you were sleeping…

Under urgency the government has passed the Therapeutic Products Bill while we were distracted by the world cup and the violent events in Auckland....

Open Letter To Dr. Shane Reti, National Party Spokesperson on Health

Dear Dr. Reti I would like to commend your efforts over the last three months to accompany ambulance staff up and down the country as they...

Prime Minister’s statement on Kiri Allan

Full text statement of Chris Hipkins released today. Prime Minister Chris Hipkins met with Kiri Allan this morning to discuss her recent leave and allegations...

Bryce Edwards: The Era of complacency over political conflicts of interest is over

Michael Wood has become a victim of his own complacency about conflicts of interest. He simply didn’t take integrity rules meant to protect the New...

Michael ‘River of filth’ Wood resigns from portfolio, Hipkins outlines new Ministerial disclosure scheme

'River of filth' Wood is now officially up the creek. Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has accepted the resignation of Transport Minister Michael Wood. In a press...

A nation divided and misinformed cannot progress. It is time for scientists to set the record straight

On March 29 2021 Dr. Rochelle Walensky then Director of the US CDC reassured the American public and the world on MSNBC "Vaccinated people do...

Bryce Edwards: The Troubling report into Stuart Nash’s conflicts of interest

Maybe we’ve all got scandal fatigue. This is the best explanation for why there’s not more public and media concern in the wake of the...

Matt King responds to statement of DemocracyNZ ex-candidates, Steve Cranston speaks

King spoke to Paul Brennan of Reality Check Radio this morning to give his side of the story. King said the catalyst for the walkout...

DemocracyNZ resignations: Ex-candidates release statement

As reported yesterday, five candidates of the DemocracyNZ party tendered their resignations over the weekend. Four of them, Dr. Matt Shelton, Lee Smith, Kirsten Murfitt...

Five candidates resign from DemocracyNZ

Party leader Matt King told supporters via a Facebook video that he will be making a statement on the walkout in the next few...

Meng Foon resigns as Race Relations Commissioner

Foon today confirmed his intention to resign, following revelations in April that he and his family made donations to Labour MP Kiritapu Allan, including...

Bryce Edwards: Does Michael Wood have enough integrity to be a Minister?

New Zealanders are supposed to be able to trust that there are adequate systems in place to ensure our politicians aren’t corrupt. There are mandatory...

Hollow accolades

“Too often we honour swagger and bluster and wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives...

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